Emacs vs. vi: # of users?

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From: Jurgen Botz
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 23:21

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For the sake of the argument of which editor is more "standart", I'd
be interested if anyone has any (even fuzzy) data on how many users
of each editor there are.  The fact that vi is shipped with (almost?)
all Unix systems points to vi, but I suspect that over 90% of all
computer science students who work on Unix use emacs, and they must
be a pretty sizable percentage of Unix users.

Also: _is_ vi shipped with all Unix (and clone) systems?  If not, which
(other than GNU, which isn't ready, and has a vi-clone anyway) vendors
don't ship vi?

What percentage of Unix vendors ship emacs?
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From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Subject: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?
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